How long should it take to edit a photo?

Answering unanswerable questions

I get this question often, and I’m still searching for an elegant answer that doesn’t turn into a 15-minute monologue: How long should it take to edit a photo?

Somewhere between “just a quick crop” and “I’ve been staring at this image for three hours, nudging a slider back and forth.” Alright, maybe that’s a little too vague. Let me show you an image fro…